Drama Junkie Queen
Billy Boy on Poison: Jes Calcaterra, Greg West, Ryan Wallengren, Davis Leduke.Audio Mixer: "Big Stu" Brantley.Recording information: Digital NoHo; Hard Drive Analogue; Ironworks Studios Silverlake.Photographers: Andy Willsher; Jay Marshall; Andrzej Liguz.New York scuzz-rock by way of the Sunset Strip, Billy Boy on Poison feels as if it was concocted in a laboratory, assembled from elements of every rock trend since 1994. Take a bit of the Strokes' tight, efficient new wave art-punk and downtown hipster sensibility; add a bit of hooks borrowed from Oasis, a little disco-rock from Franz Ferdinand, enough ironic hair metal thievery to get them on the radio à la Hinder, and a bit of Jet's three-chord bounce; and season with Jack White guitar solos and stairstep classic rock riffs reworked from Hendrix and the Beatles -- and you'll have DRAMA JUNKIE QUEEN, an exercise in trash-rock.